Yesterday evening, Thursday, the Jordanian security services released more than 40 activists who were arrested in the morning following calls on social media to commemorate the "March 24th protest" to demand political reforms.
According to the families of the detainees, the arrests included activists in professional unions, partisans, military retirees and former deputies. Among the most prominent detainees were unionist Maysara Malas and former parliament member Wasfi Al-Rawashdeh.
A security source had told Al Jazeera Net that "a number of organizers and advocates for organizing a sit-in and march at noon (yesterday) Thursday, were summoned and arrested, for violating defense orders, and for not obtaining official permission to hold the sit-in, according to the Public Meetings Law."
Activists and activists commemorate what is known as the anniversary of March 24, the date on which the Jordanian movement began - or what is known as the "Arab Spring in Jordan" in 2011 - calling for political and economic reforms, and witnessed an open sit-in at the time at the "Interior Roundabout" known as "Jamal Square". Abdel Nasser" in central Amman, and the authorities dispersed him by force.
The Islamic Action Front - the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood - had accused the authorities of arresting a number of political activists over issues related to freedom of opinion, and demanded their release.
The party said - in a statement to the Freedoms Committee - that the arrests had arbitrarily arrested a number of political and movement activists in a number of the kingdom's governorates, on the background of issues related to freedom of opinion guaranteed by the constitution.